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Death Blow to LA’s Middle Class

For decades, City Hall experimented with a bizarre form of municipal socialism, enriching the rich, impoverishing the poor and driving away the middle class. The 2000 census showed that white flight in the 1980s had become middle-class flight, cutting across … Continue reading

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Trust in God — Not the Planning Department: Michael LoGrande’s First Big Test

A city’s General Plan lays out the broad guidelines for all new developments that are then refined through community plans that provide detailed rules block by block so that residents and developers know exactly what is allowed and what isn’t. … Continue reading

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